658 CLXXI. OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scirpus. 
13. S. triqueter, Linn. Mant. 29; stems stout triquetrons, leaves 
short, umbel subsimple lateral, spikelets clustered, pristies ately brown. 
scabrous, style 2-fid, nut plane-convex smooth pale L ^i 334, in note. 
Reichb. Te. Fl. Germ. viii. 40, t. 305; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 334 n ME 
S. Pollichii, Gren. & Godr. Fl. Franc. iii. 374; Boeck. in Linnea, 
711. 
LC. — DISTRIB. 
KASHMIR and BALTISTHAN, alt. 6-8000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson, &c.—D 
Europe, Central Asia to Japan, S. Africa. :no scales ovate 
Glabrous, except margin of glumes. Rhizome elongate, E o fuces plane, 
triangular, striate, rusty-brown, often rubbed off. Stems di any Lowest bract 
third (flower-bearing) concave, Leaves 4-3 in. long, or t. el 12 in. with 2-9 
3-2 in., triquetrous, as though continuing stem. Rays of un le head. Spikelets 
clustered spikelets on each ; or umbel congested nearly to, ^ orm) Glumes broadly 
i in. long, broad cylindric, rusty-brown (in the Himal. on ins scarious, ciliate, 
ovate, keeled, notched at top with a short mucro in notch; ma g incurved over its 
hairy. Bristles rigid, brown-red, often about as long as na d ose). Stamens 3, 
shoulders, scabrous with short white reflexed teeth (not P. ces 3.fid. Nut les 
anthers with short red crests. Style fide Boeckeler sometime n ie. that this 
than 4 length of glume.—As to the specific name, Bentham ` "i carding that name. 
plant was S.triqueter, Linn., and that Boeckeler erred in the more acutely tri- 
It hardly differs from S. lacustris var. carinata, except by 
quetrous stem, 
ith one spikelet, 
Var. segregata; ultimate rays of the umbel all (or nearly aD eng. Ix, pu , 
bristles 3 (sometimes 2). ? S. subulatus, Prain in Journ. As. Clarke “New Guinea. 
335.—Lower Bengal, especially the Soondreebun, C. B. C. divided, sometimes 
—Stolons slender. Rays of the inflorescence sometimes "E, black-red. 
3% in. long. Bristles 3 or 2 (usually 4 or more in S. triqueter, tyP-)s 
omewhat 
14, S. lacustris, Linn. Sp. Pl. 72; stems stout terete 1 solitary, 
trigonous, umbels usually compound, spikelets clus ere olovoid smoo 
bristles 6-5 retrorsely simply scabrous, style 2-9-fd, nn pek. in Linnea, 
finally black. Reich, Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 41, t. 30 BI Enum. ii. 268. §: 
xxxvi. 712; Strachey Pl. Kumaon, 73. S. validus, Va ` t. 307, 723. S. 
Tabernæmontani, Ganel. Fl. Badens. i. 101; Reichb. dei Reichb. l.c. 42, 
carinatus, Sowerby Engl. Bot. t. 1983. S. Duvallii, Hoppe i atus, Aitch. in 
t. 308. S. Meyenii, Nees in Linnea, ix. 293. S. SU Chron. D 71] 399, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 189. Juncus zebrinus, Gard. 
2. 
t. 6 alt. 4500 ft., 
KASHMIR, alt. 5500 ft., and LADAK, Schlagintweit, &c. Kumaon, ® © p ope, 
_DIsTRIB. 
Thomson, Strachey § Winterbottom. MuNeypoor, Watt. Dis 
Africa, Australia, N. America. tei ater 
Rhizome horizontal. Stems 11-4 ft., often standing in e or twice t 
any, or sometimes 4 in., or (floating) 1-2 ft. Umbel usually lowest ract suberee 
4-6 in. in diam., sometimes reduced almost to a small head; ^ th a small mu e- 
short. Spikelets 4 in. long. Glumes ovate, notched at top "ut or reduced, ^ 
notch; margins membranous, pilose. Bristles as long as the » plane-conves e s 
times almost 0. Stamens 3, anthers crested. Nut 3-b BE. nemontani di e 
type S. lacustris, the stem is terete, the style 3-fid ; var. lacustris of S. Amer 
in style bifid ; var. carinata in stem obscurely trigonous.—(S. la 
is S. riparius, Presl.). us, leaves 
100n0U5, H 
15. S. maritimus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 74; stems robust trigo ej hairy 
severallong, umbel compound simple or capitate, glum abo 
at top mucronate, bristles 6-3 retrorse-scabrous rare y » ig d 
3-fid (see var.), nut obovoid smooth finally black. M "i n Linnza, 27 
111; Heichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 42, t. 310, 311; Boeck. i 
